Science, Israel wanted as the fourth country ever set foot on the moon, but the first attempt to explorer ‘Beresheet’ on the surface of the moon to countries, failed.
Israel was ready to go after the Soviet Union (1959), the USA (1964) and China (2013) on the moon to land. That is not successful. At the same time, it is also a failure of the very first private maansonde. The spacecraft ‘Beresheet’ – about as big as a washing machine and about 585 pounds – came during the descent to the lunar surface to do with technical problems.
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The launch of the explorer, found at the end of February from the well-known baikonur Cape Canaveral. The rig was transported in a rocket from SpaceX, the space of businessman Elon Musk. It flew in ever wider circles around our planet on april 4, in orbit around our natural satellite. The probe had today to 21.25 hours Belgian time, landing in the Mare Serinitatis, a vast lavavlakte on “our” side of the moon, a few hundred kilometres of the place where the astronauts of Apollo 15 landed.
But in the last phase of the descent went wrong. The main engine fell off and the contact was broken. The unit is then supposedly crashed.
